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Hee-haw   Listen
verb
hee-haw  v. i.  To bray in the manner of a donkey.
Synonyms: bray.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hee-haw" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had but been wiser! But instead of sighs and lamentations they could only bray like asses; and they brayed loudly and said in chorus: "Hee-haw!" ...
— Pinocchio - The Tale of a Puppet • C. Collodi

... unparalleled among the Dublin public. The platform was regularly carried by a throng of admirers, giving Madame Lola Montez barely space to reach her desk. She was listened to with enraptured attention and warm manifestations of approval"; and "very properly, an ill-bred fellow, who exclaimed, 'hee-haw' at regular intervals, was ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... in the wood, where he served her for a twelvemonths and a day. When the year had passed, she called him to her, and said she had good wages for him. So she presented him with an ass out of the stable, and he had but to pull Neddy's ears to make him begin at once to hee-haw! And when he brayed there dropped from his mouth silver sixpences, and ...
— English Fairy Tales • Flora Annie Steel

... Marie were still looking with all their eyes across the still water toward the sunset and trying to see the crystal palace of the eels, when suddenly from behind them there came a loud "Hee-haw, hee-haw." They jumped, and Granny jumped, too, and they all looked around to see where the sound came from. There, coming slowly toward them along the tow-path on the river-bank, was an old brown mule. She was pulling a low, green river-boat by a towline, and a small boy, not much bigger ...
— The Belgian Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins



Words linked to "Hee-haw" :   ha-ha, bray, laughter, utter, laugh, emit, let loose, horselaugh



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